Yendi (N/R), Sept. 8, GNA - ActionAid International, Ghana, an NGO, has since 1993, spent over 2.5 billion cedis in the provision of development projects in Saboba/Chereponi, Nanumba, Yendi and Zabzugu/Tatale districts of the Northern Region.

The projects included schools, maternity wards, boreholes, culverts and dams. The NGO also provided grain banks, grinding mills, farm equipment, volunteer teachers, school furniture and motorcycles to the districts, as well as built the capacity of the Area Councils and supported women's rights and HIV/AIDS issues.

Mr Michael Lumor, Yendi District Manager of ActionAid in charge of the eastern corridor of the Northern Region, announced this at a strategy development meeting his NGO organised for District Chief Executives (DCEs) and heads of departments from the beneficiary districts, in Yendi on Friday.

He said the objective of the meeting was to chart a new strategy for the organisation to carry out development projects that would positively impact on the lives of the people and also make development partners accountable to the people.

He explained that the new development paradigm called for a re-definition of ActionAid's relationship with district assemblies and the decentralised departments, adding that this involved the drawing up of a relationship agreement defining the terms of the mutual support for the year 2007 to 2009.